1965.1.9.2

Collection type

Object

Description

Charm pendant against disease, made of clay moulded around pieces of wood and ornamented with roughly incised lines.

Geographical reference

Congo, Democratic Republic of

Africa > Central Africa > Congo, Democratic Republic of

Person

Field collector Richard Edward Dennett

PRM source Folk-Lore Society

Date / Period

Date made: Before 1895

Date collected

By 1895

Acquisition information

Donated: 1965

Materials and processes

Material Clay, Material Wood Plant, Process Moulded, Process Incised, Process Carved

Dimensions

Length: max 59 mm

Object numbers

Accession number: 1965.1.9.2 Other numbers: D.1900.28 b Other PRM accession number: 1965.1.9b

Associated publications

For a consideration of the evidence for concluding that the Congo material in the Folklore Society donation (i.e. collection 1965.1) was collected by Richard Edward Dennett in the 1890s and given by him to the Folklore Society in or around 1895, see 'Hidden Charms: Writing On, Around, and About a Congo Collection at the Pitt Rivers Museum', by Sally Ayres, in Journal of Museum Ethnography, no. 25 (2012), pp. 55-63. (Photocopy in RDF.) [JC 18 4 2013] For a consideration of the evidence for concluding that the Congo material in the Folklore Society donation (i.e. collection 1965.1) was collected by Richard Edward Dennett in the 1890s and given by him to the Folklore Society in or around 1895, see pages 12 (note 23), 29-30, 183 (note 185), 241-244, 308, of 'Hidden Histories and Multiple Meanings: The Richard Dennett Collection at the Royal Albert Memorial Museum, Exeter', by Sara Craig Ayres (Plymouth: Pymouth University, Ph.D. thesis, 2012). (Printouts of relevant pages in RDF.) [JC 7 8 2013]

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